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About Nancy C. Janyszeski
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Office (12) 2007 experience. I am a MOUS Authorized Instructor and MOUS Master Certified. I am a Sr. Instructional Designer for International IT Certification based on the International Computer Drivers Licence (ICDL). http://www.activ-training.com/ Microsoft offers free online training for Mail Merge at... http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word/CH060832701033.aspx

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I am Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) Master Certified and was certified as a MOUS Authorized Instructor. Sr Instructional Designer for International IT Certification for ActivTest, a division of Activ Training based on the ECDL's standard for end-user software competence.

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Microsoft Word - copy/paste slow

Expert: Nancy C. Janyszeski - 7/1/2009

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I have XP Professional/Office 2003 Suite, with all the up to date (July 2009) patches.

In the last 3 months, the copy/paste function in Word 2003 has been very slow - in the order of 5-7 seconds to copy/paste, say 3 words (not that much memory). No graphics is involved.

Can you suggest a few categories of problems here.

I've tried; uninstall/reinstall Office 2003, uninstall my antivirus, delete Office 2007...

Thanks.

Answer
Tommie, I am seeing office 2003 and Office 2007

Office 2003 Suite

Not sure if you are running Office 2007 on XP or

Office 2003 on Vista?

Where are you copying from? If you are copying from the internet it is a slow paste because of the code.

I see Word 2003 so I am not clear where the Office 2007 comes into the picture.

Nancy

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